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Show vv1 yly'f"' fr Anne Geyer t a. . - Get Out Your Eve Buttons, 1950s Arc RisingO Again Los Angeles Times Syndicate To tell the truth, no one ever considered us very glamorous. We have WASHINGTON been alternately described "passive." "hung out or just out." We were as "quiet," squashed too much in an unfair history between the great warriors of the 40s generation and the non-amors of the 60s generation even to be considered "lost I am shaking, of course, of those of us (and w'e are legion) of the 50s generation. And I am about to say two absolutely outrageous things: (1) one of the few problems about the Carter administration that has not been analyzed Is the fact that he left us out and (2) get out your Ike buttons, brothers and sisters, the 50s are rising again. Ideological Leaders Point one. There is no question at all jn my mind that one of the major reasons for the incoherence in Washington is the fact that Jimmy Carter got most of his highly ideologized ieadets out of the '60s generation. There are virtually no 1950s people, i.e., people now in their late 30s and 40s. Yet throughout history, it has always been natural for this age group to come to power, if only because they have lived long enough to see one great mission fail or one beautiful country die. What did we get in the 60s leaders? Besides an almost brittle brightness of mind, we got a consuming guilt, a view of the United States as an evil giant that must he lead, a provincial attitude toward the outside world, a lack of any sense of history and a horror of dealing from a position of power. They felt we fought Vietnam because we were morally evil. 50s Qualities The 50s generations qualities, on the other hand. Included a reasonable faith in the country, the quiet courage necessary to fight a civil rights f'ght, a sense of history, a work ethic, a desire to know the world as it is and a rational balance about what can be willed and where power must step in. We also felt Vietnam but strategically and tactically. was wrong Point two. In the midst of all this chaos, I rfr. Yip-yap- 1856-7-- Shade and fruit trees planting is now in order all over the city. Remember and set out plenty of apple trees. The fruit keeps the worms from starving, and they in turn give body and flavor to cider and mince pies. March 4, 1929 MTnle Herbert Hoover is being inaugurated at Washington Monday, another inauguration will take place at the mouth of Parleys canyon. f rVStolr, v Tr" ct v" The Sail Lake Tnhune, Sunday , March Indeed, the truly liberal new position being generated by many in my generation is precisely one of returning power to the people. We are against the welfare state not because we hate the poor, like many of the ultraconservatives, but because we have enough respect for them to think they can do something besides he back and consume. e criticism of the Indeed, the service economy" which is depatronizing vouring America was brilliantly analyzed by Northwestern University Prof. John McKnight, thinkers. one of the new-styl- e Nalltm vf CSiruis If we are unable to free ourselves from the ideology of service, he says, "we will die of our dependence on deficiency A nation of clients cannot conceive of the democratic-possibilitymuch less act m behalf of the common good Our democratic possibility depends upon citizens who believe in and understand their limits This is typical of the new ideological amalgam that is beginning to emerge from the bus generation. It is neither Right nor Left, neither conservative nor liberal. It is something now, and the names of potential leaders Howard Baker, Teddy sifting through it Kennedy, Alexander Haig, Jim Thompson, Jerry Brown, Jack Kemp ran the ideological gauntlet. As it looks now, the mantle ot leadership of this newly coalescing group will go to the person 01 gioup, Democrat or Republican, which can arrive at a new synthesis of the desperate need for productivity, the dignity ot creative eitv.cn.ship and a rational use of power. (Copyright) new-styl- Frnl . . JtV !in just fomulxxly asking if wo kooj) pm- - in tli o lor protoot ion." , . then-capacit- It will be the beginning of the sysicm by which natural gas is to be distributed to consumers in Salt Lake. Machinery was assembled Sunday and the first breaking of the ground occurred at a point south and west of the Fort Douglas military reservation. The natural gas interests will begin Monday the actual laying of a network of intermediate high pressure supply lines which will cover thirty miles of twelve-incpipe. The Public Forum Trilnme Readers Opinions llobor Patrol Gov. Matheson has repeatedly said he needs more highway troopers. Yet every day you can see four or five highway police vehicles operating out of the small town of Ileber within an area of about 14 miles However, on the highway trom H her through Daniels Canyon, beyond the weigh station, and also on the highway from Holier to Provo, very seldom do you see a patrol car Perhaps the reason is because the 14 miles north of Heber is a place where they can talk and still make their quota. Often you will see two or three patrol ears parked in a group. These troopers could not he doing their job efficiently, nor could they be overworked. With our 55 miles per hour speed limit, have we made it too easy for them to obtain their Will the hiring of more quota of tickets troopers really help? Why in it put more patrolmen in Provo and Daniels Canyons whore they are needed. Maybe this will help make driving safer for all of us JOYCE PETERSON Heber City h March 4, 1954 In providing public health services, Salt Lake . City and County are still in the horse and buggy-stage- Commendable Students At least a dozen different political units are now providing health services within the confines of the county. Some are overlapping On the morning of Feb. 15. Ballet West hosted groups of students to a special performance of "Don Quixote in the Capitol Theater. These students came from several private schools plus Granite School District, Davis County School District and Salt Lake City School and some are inadequate. As a solution to the problem presented, the Salt Lake County Medical Society, Welfare Council of Salt Lake County and the Health Committee of Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce are proposing a single combined health unit. District. These students, ranging trom six graders up through high school attended the performance in a magnificent manner. A good majority of them came dressed for the theater in suits, ties land dresses, unlike nuny concerts in other s came buildings where students and dressed looking as lousy as they possibly can. These students di essed well and behaved like young adults and ladies and gentlemen. The students as well as their teachers and superintendents should be commended for their apjiearance and behavior. We of the Capitol Theater certainly appreciated it. STEVEN H. HORTON Assistant Manager Salt Palace Center teen-ager- Managements Fault Your coverage of the recent UTA walk-ou- t was unfair to the workers who went on strike. Your bias 'was clearly demonstrated by your emotional lead editorial least, they are so much alike that their competition appears To illustrate: In 1976, many of Carter's a massive reorganization of the proposals federal bureaucracy, a complete overhaul of the tax code, a recasting of foreign policy in d in Washingwere moral terms ton as impractical or undesirable. And so they pooh-poohe- have proved to be, in many instances But Carter was using those proposals to tell the voters outside Washington that he was desire for what he aware of their deep-seate-d called "more compassionate and comietert government. And his words struck a responsive chord, even if the specific plans wen quickly blown out of the water. Public Forum letters must be submiued exclusively to The Tribune and bar writers full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letter but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84110. titled 'Illegal UTA Wildcat Strike Mugs an Innocent Public (Feb. 18). This editorial was full of vicious rhetoric and an almost hysterical attempt to turn the public against the UTA workers. I depend on UTA bus service for all my transportation needs. I hold UTA management responsible for the inconvenience I suffered during the strike. The bus drivers and mechanics want a may be wiih Brown and the balanced-budge- t amendment. He has perceived a genuine, broad disquiet in the land about the erosion of power, confidence and credibility in America. He attribute's this to and lack of discipline, and finds a convenient symbol of this excess in the inability of the fedeial government to hold its spending to the scale of its income. By linking the inability to balance the budget to the decline (if American saving, investment and productivity, and the decline of the American dollar and American influence abroad, Brown is touching on some of the deeper emotions stirring the electorate. Outside Confines As Carter did in his campaign, the governor is also claiming a position as a moral critic of American society that puts him outside the traditional confines of political ideology. Federal deficits, he says, are just a symptom of the nations unwillingness to forgo excess con1 think we sumption for needed investment. have to put a greater emphasis on building for the future instead of stealing from it, he says. "We cannot have everything at once Those who assume that this rhetoric means Brown will be challenging Carter "from the right are as likely to lie proven wrong as those who thought Carter had positioned himself as candidate in the 1976 the "conservative Democratic field. the born-agaiJust as Carter Baptist and seemed to synthesize nuclear engineer opjKisites in his campaign, Brown tends to encompass in a single verbal formulation the goals and values of conflicting constituencies. So it e n Expresses Opinion "If we want to protect the environment, have technological leadership and build for the future," he says, "its going to mean less indulgence today and a leaner lifestyle than some are prepared to accept. We need to save to invest, and we need to invest to have jobs There is something for everyone 111 those two sentences. When Brown was asked on ABCs Issuos and Answers" whether his Democratic philosophy was that of "Roosevelt, Kennedy, Truman, Johnson or. . .something we have not 1 think all of sien Indore, he answered: those " candidate is indeed the "worthy for this lresident that Jimmy .d Brown was. That kind .tin (if adversary" 1 saw )oir lips mov i nr. p? decent standard of living They want a clause in their contract so that their wages will keep up with rising inflation. With inflation running at well over 10 percent annually, this is a demand that we can all understand. Carters "seven jierceiii solution is an attack on the standard of living of all working-peopl- e. UTA management hasnt shown the slightest concern over the needs of their employees. Resimnsible" groups like the American Bar believe that Carters Assn, and the AFL-C1- 0 program of sanctions is illegal. Instead of using as an excuse, why Carters guidelines doesnt UTA management use the courts, the congress and their easy access to the pages of The Tribune to campaign against Carter's program? I agree wiih The Tribunes point that the" strikers sudden action showed lack of concern for public opinion and the needs of bus riders. I ' think that UTA employees can win support if they will work to explain their cause and their actions to their riders and the public in general. Can they expect fair treatment and responsible coverage from The Salt Lake Tribune? DAYNE GOODWIN g . Forum Rules Brown Speaking to Voters, Not Elected Officials The National Governors Association, after hearing Browns arguments, chose to reiterate its call for the achievement of a balanced budget in fiscal 1981 by the ordinary legislative without any recourse to constituprocess tional change. And the members of Congress Brown encountered during his three-da- y stay gave his proposal the back of their hand. If Brown wanted economy in Washington, they said, federal aid to California would be a good place to start cutting. Same Premise But when I saw President Carters most likely challenger in the 1980 Democratic primaries late in his visit to Washington, he seemed remarkably unfazed by these rebuffs. He knows that the Issue may well play very differently on the stump than It does in gatherings of elected officials. The officeholder examine the proiosal for a variety of as I do its substance and see drawbacks and dangers. But the voters are more likely to see it as Brown Intends, as a symbol and metaphor for a change In policy direction which they may well find appealing. Brown is operating on the same premise that President Carter used in his 1676 campaign: that issues are important In an election mainly as cues to the voters of the candidate's attitude on underlying questions. Carters was a campaign of themes, not issues, his pollster Patrick Caddell kept telling literal minded rexirters, who found the specifics of Carter's proposals Indigestible. Brown seems to lie following the same approach, as he positions himself to challenge the Incumbent President. In this respect, at I S , David S. Broiler The Washington Post WASHINGTON Jerry Brown did not make many converts to his crusade for a balanced-budge- t constitutional amendment while he was in Washington last week. But it would probably be a mistake to think that his failure in this capital diminishes the potential convention to mandate a balanced federal budget. All browns legislative allies were able to salvage was a recommendation that Congress initiate such an amendment itself. 4, 1979 begin to see the emergence of a new altei n.itn e being articulated largely by this same '5us group. The key word is produrmity " I hear it from a diplomat friend from a Cariblieaii nation who suddenly realizes that, without increasing productivity, his nation will remain forever mired in the worst poverty, ideologically puie or not. I hear it from leaders like C.ov Jerry Brown who sees quite rightly that w'e will sink into nothingness and anarchy as a nation if we do a message that is at once not produce idealistic, practical and basically The Way It Was Here are the briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago: March 4, 1879 CITY JOTTINGS Our vigilant police ought to stop the racing on the State Road, reported s come in from the every Saturday. country, fill themselves with Valley Tan, and then race their prancing steeds to the imminent peril of all passing vehicles. Several light wagons have been wrecked by this lawless indulgence. The Masonic library has the complete files of the Valley Tan, the first Gentile paper published by in Utah. This is the only copy extant, the paper being published in the years V"! V Cai ter - s,- (Copyright) Tav Cut Search Well again the Democrats and the Republicans are going at each other trying to come up with a cure-al- l tax reduction package that is woefully short of providing any real relief for anyone. The Democrats w'ant to take the sales tax off food. I dont care who you are poor, this bill mean a savings middle class, or rich of 5 percent on your food bill for about six months only. By this time inflation will have driven up food prices at least 5 percent and your wonderful tax savings is gone forever. A two percent reduction overall in the sales tax would be more realistic. Or no sales tax would be even better and would give every worker the equivalent of a 5 percent pay raise. Now thats a tax reduction that helps everyone ahnd helps low incoeme families the most. The Republicans want to give us a token property tax reduction after reappraisal values skyrocketed this year We need to unload the present property tax program and develop a new one Lets start over based on 1977 values and when pinperty is sold, traded, inherited, etc, it w ill he reappraised at the current levels and taxed at the new level. Until such time property taxes will remain the same and no citizen will loose his property due to ridiculous increases in taxes that actually "confiscate property. As people are Ixirn every day, and also die every day, property would constantly be reappiaised and taxed at the current rate yet those on fixed incomes of any kind would be protected from unreasonable increases Some taxes are to provide sen ices tor our community and they can he simple and fair to all. How about both parties working together for once? BILL RIGOR CourapNui- - Acl I strongly disagree with your editorial tin sti iking iUTA) iFebiuarj lsi condemning bus driver Your editorial pretends that the "public is an innocent third party to the strike. The (act is that the majority people who of the "public aie working Lite the transit workers to keep up with nidation decent standard of living are and stiugglmg The maintain a courageous action of the Amalgamated Transit I nion Division 382 in saying "Ve have had enough" is an inspiration to all working people in Salt Lake City. The Utah Transit Authority, through its inept ness and inefficiency, has allowed the wages of drivers and niamlen.mi e woikcrs to sink to pitifully low levels compai ed to the cost of living At the same time, UTA is responsible for mamt lining dangerous conditions tor Imth drivers of the buses and the winking people w ho ride them As a steelworker and unionist, I believe that wot king jienple in this city must see through the crocodile tears (if the medi 1, the courts and city officials and understand that 1. is the transit wmketswho, by defying the slav c labor "no strike" law, ami by fighting for better Wages and winking conditions, have proven themselves to be people really concerned for the host mteiests of the "public'. IAM BURCHETT Socialist Workers 1'artv Candidate tor Mayor I A |
